John Tesh Quotes

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.

If someone had told me age 14 to start making serious decisions about my career, I'd have laughed!

Lot of people know very early what they want, but I didn't know I wanted acting.

What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

Having an education is extremely valuable, but we need to help people connect their choice of studies to a potential career at an earlier age so that they are better prepared to get the job they want when the time comes.

I'm not sure what I want to do - business, law, something else.

When I started with 'Cocktail,' I was trying to figure out if this was something I wanted to do.

Back in 2000, I had come to a crossroads in my life, unsure about what career path I should pursue. Shepherd, bouncer, philosopher king, ventriloquist or perhaps man on the flying trapeze. Fortunately, I was guided back onto the path of the magical world of music.

We have to do everything we can to help students and adult learners to prepare for the careers of today as well as the careers of tomorrow.

When I left university with a history degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do, and I was terrified of accidentally ending up in the wrong career.

What I find really difficult is making career decisions. Normally it will take me two weeks, until the very last minute and I have to say yes or no. For a couple of weeks, I will tune everyone out who is giving me advice, so that I can make a clear decision on my own and it takes time.

I hadn't even thought about what I wanted to do when I left school because I was only 14 when I started modelling.

There came a point sometime during high school when I started thinking about exploring acting as a career, but it was more of an intention than an actual decision. I was very interested in a lot of different subjects, but every time I envisioned myself actually pursuing one as a career, I always ended up thinking that I would rather be acting.

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art school out of high school.

My message is get into what you love and really want to do and can do. And there are these tests you can take for that. All the colleges have them.

I don't think there is enough youth employment or enough push for youths to kind of do want they want to do.

I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.

When I was still a bright-eyed McKinsey consultant, I remember hitting a point where I didn't know what to do next, and someone gave me the book, 'How Remarkable Women Lead,' and I read it and scribbled in it, and it felt like a guide in helping me figure out my career.

The higher the level of people's perceived self-efficacy, the wider the range of career options they seriously consider, the greater their interest in them, and the better they prepare themselves educationally for the occupational pursuits they choose.

I am very cautious, and there are not too many decisions I've not discussed with my parents, whether that be about my career or away from the field.

You only have a true choice when you know what opportunities are out there and what qualifications you need.